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Yup - your Virus C will self destruct the minute the TI is released!

i would advise you not to hold your breath as this could be severly detrimental to your health :oops:

Re: Will my Virus C be useless after I buy the TI

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Originally Posted by ipaqlinux48

Suppose that I buy the new TI, will my Virus C be useless or not. .................
Your advice please.

yes, your virus C will be useless - you might as well give it to me.

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Originally Posted by wildbill

yes, your virus C will be useless - you might as well give it to me.

HEY! Get in line mate..... ;)

Re: Will my Virus C be useless after I buy the TI

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Originally Posted by jasedee

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Originally Posted by wildbill

yes, your virus C will be useless - you might as well give it to me.

HEY! Get in line mate..... ;)

Damn, I was going to say that too.

Your Virus C is an instrument. Not a computer.

Stop looking at specs and enjoy what a wonderful instrument it really is :)
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Uggs

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Stop looking at specs and enjoy what a wonderful instrument it really is :)

Good point. I guess the real question is, is it suddenly going to stop working when the new type comes out? Are all of your compositions suddenly going to need 80 voice polyphony? Not really -- notes and beats are the same, even if musical styles change.

As long as your VC produces those in the ways that you want, it will remain useful.

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Originally Posted by ben crosland

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Originally Posted by GothicIndustrial

Ben, do you work for Access?

I do some work for Access, yes - preset designing and trade show demos, for instance. I am not an employee.

Why, what are you trying to say? ;)

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Also, synths tend to have a signature sound. You can make a million different patches with the Virus, but they're still gonna sound like a Virus. This is not an attack on the Virus, I think it's true of any synth.

This is true to an extent, but I think it's fair to say that it is easier to identify the Virus sound in some contexts than it is in others. I think the more a patch makes use of the onboard fx, the easier it becomes to identify it as Virus. Also, there are inevitably those presets which become trademarks - other musicians might pour scorn on those who use these patches, but the general public know nothing of such things, so what does it matter?

For the record though, I never use presets in my own work ;)

i dont understand this "dont use presets" attitude. there is an immense difference between a sound-engineer and a composer. i've heard music from several respected sound-engineers and their music is below-par/crap. but they do know how to make a good sound.

soundengineers make composers sound good. and the other way around. personally, i use a mix of both presets and hand made sounds. i only do this because i've always had limited access to good sounds (never owned any HW before).. when i get the TI, i'll use the presets for what its worth. and i promise you.. it will sound better than music from the people who created the patches.

YAY for presets :)

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Originally Posted by xerxes_

soundengineers make composers sound good. and the other way around.

Never a truer word has been spoken!

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personally, i use a mix of both presets and hand made sounds. i only do this because i've always had limited access to good sounds (never owned any HW before).. when i get the TI, i'll use the presets for what its worth. and i promise you.. it will sound better than music from the people who created the patches.
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You may well be correct, but in our defence, I think the main reason sound-designers struggle to compose much decent music, is because we spend too much time on the sounds. The reverse is probably true for composers ;)

For the record, there are also many very successful composers who design most, if not all their own sounds. BT, Vangelis, Brian Eno, to name but a few..

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Originally Posted by ben crosland

Indeed. When I had a Virus I remember that 90% of the time I programmed sounds. That was probably why I didn't get any new tunes while I had a Virus. ?hih.

Of course by sound programming you can get originality, but then if you have a preset that works perfectly, why not to use it instead. Don't fix if it's not broken.

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Yup - your Virus C will self destruct the minute the TI is released!

holy fucking shit! access rigged my virus b to detonate when the TI ships. mutha fuckerz!

seriously though saba's words are wise like mr myagi's.

about a synth being an instrument. not a computer.

if anything ive learnt that having a 3 ghz cpu or 2 gigs of ram or 80 poly just makes people use it up more inefficiently. you'll just burn that poly up on multiple unisons and then next year you will drool over the virus HPM (high poly monster) with like, 250 simultaneous voices. :lol:

of course, im not getting a virus TI so if they all ship with bombs in them, this can only be good news for me (provided the bomb is only powerful enough to muller the virus and not the person playing it - cant have deaths on my conscience. oh no :roll: )

my way of dealing with the TI -

it doesnt exist. it doesnt exist. if i believe its not real - it isnt! la la la la! RAH RAH RAH!